Before the official presentation of the crime statistics, Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann called for a change of course in asylum policy in view of the already known increase in crimes. “The increase in crime in Germany worries me,” said Herrmann Augsburg General. Although the risk of becoming a victim of a crime is significantly lower in Bavaria, Bavaria ranks lower in a nationwide comparison. “But we must not accept that uncontrolled immigration in particular has a negative impact on the security situation,” said the CSU politician. In particular, the comparatively high proportion of non-German suspects must be taken into account.
It is important to take criminal foreigners who pose a threat to public safety out of the country as quickly as possible after they have served their sentence. “Unfortunately, despite full-throated announcements, the federal government has still not achieved any noticeable improvements in returns,” said Herrmann. The traffic light coalition has recently tightened its asylum policy in several areas, for example by agreeing on a nationwide payment card, introducing border controls and accelerating deportations. Traffic light politicians also always describe the agreement on a European asylum system as a success.
All of that is not enough for Herrmann. There is a need for “a fundamental change of course in asylum policy and, above all, an effective containment of illegal migration,” he said and calls for further tightening. Illegal migrants should also be able to be rejected at Germany’s borders if they apply for asylum, especially if their identity has not been clarified. This is currently illegal, but there have been indications of suspected pushbacks at the German border in the past.
Significantly better protection of the EU’s external borders has also been overdue for years. “For the time being, we will therefore have to consistently control the internal borders by the federal police and the Bavarian border police,” said the minister.
Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) wants to officially present the new figures on Tuesday. However, it was already known in advance through a media report that the number of registered crimes nationwide rose by 5.5 percent to almost six million last year. A total of 5.94 million crimes were reported to the police, it quoted World on Sunday from crime statistics.
Of the almost 2.25 million suspects, 923,269 (plus 17.8 percent) did not have a German passport. However, immigration to Germany has also risen sharply in the past two years. Certain crimes, such as violations of the Residence Act or the Asylum Procedure Act, are almost exclusively committed by foreigners due to their different legal status.